The Pearl Button
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| Directed by | Patricio Guzmán |
| Produced by | Renate Sachse |
| Cinematography | Katell Djian |
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82 minutes |
| Country | Chile |
| Language | Spanish |
The Pearl Button (Spanish: El botón de nácar) is a 2015 Chilean documentary film directed by Patricio Guzmán. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for Best Script. It won the Lumières Award for Best Documentary at the 21st Lumières Awards.
The filmmaker has described the film as part of a triptych with Nostalgia for the Light and potentially a third film focusing on the Andes, exploring familiar Guzmán themes such as memory and the historical past, particularly that of history's "losers" rather than victors, as it documents the settlement of Chile’s Tierra del Fuego, including some of the last surviving descendants of the original Alacalufe and Yaghan inhabitants.
While this film is a departure for Guzmán, in that it does not directly focus on Chile’s past under Augusto Pinochet, the title was partly inspired by a shirt button discovered during a 2004 investigation by Chilean Judge Juan Guzmán. The button was wedged in rails recovered from the sea, which were used to dispose of the bodies of Pinochet’s victims—with an additional reference being to a pearl button with which Robert FitzRoy bought or, in another interpretation, secured the cooperation of, Yaghan native Jemmy Button and subsequently brought him to England.
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